Cognitive decline was rarely mentioned by ancient Greek and Roman authors, leading researchers to question whether dementia is a modern disease. (Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease)
Immune response may be responsible for neurologic damage after acute viral infection, a mouse model of Zika virus infection suggested. (Nature Communication)
Each year, thousands of families consume deer infected with chronic wasting disease, a rapidly spreading prion disease. Is an outbreak among humans inevitable? (Scientific American)
Football was linked with structural and physiological differences in the brains of adolescent players. (JAMA Network Open)
Accumulated phosphorylated tau pathology, especially in the frontal cortex, was associated with cognitive, functional, and certain neurobehavioral symptoms in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). (Molecular Neurodegeneration)
The National Football League (NFL) paid nearly $1.2 billion to more than 1,600 former players and families as part of the league’s concussion settlement, but denied money or medical care for some players with dementia or CTE, a Washington Post investigation reported.
A method to recognize Alzheimer’s disease from distinctive speech characteristics using ChatGPT showed a maximum accuracy of 87%. (ETRI Journal)
Here’s why one scientist left the editorial board of NeuroImage journal to help start something new. (STAT)
Psychiatric diagnoses were associated with subsequent dementia in U.K. Biobank participants, which may be partly accounted for by shared risk factors. (eBioMedicine)
Investigational nipocalimab met its primary endpoint in the phase III VIVACITY trial of generalized myasthenia gravis, Johnson & Johnson said.
Should covert cerebrovascular disease discovered incidentally be ignored? (JAMA Neurology)
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